The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-10
Three New Railroads to Be Con-
structsd Into Our City,
The Largest Stock Yards in the State
to Be Located Here.
The State Normal to Be Increased BY
Costly Buildings.
A Magnificent Future Assured-The
Business Outlook.

LlIudy our reporter WcnG uoWH "
the Santa Fe depot and had an inter
esting interview with Yardmaster
Morse concerning the extent of the
Santa Fe interests in our city and
learned the following facts:
ENIPoRIA Is THE HEADQUARTERS
of the Santa Fe's Cottonwood division,
which consists of the main line from
Emporia to Newton, the Florence s.
Winfield branch, the Florence Il Elm
wood branch, the Little River & Holly
rood branch and the Howard branch.
The material yard, the shops and
vision are located here. The officers
in charge of the division are:
r. Z. TorringtOn, agent, in charge
of fifteen men.
F. a. Burgess, train master, in
charge of all conductors and brake
men and running of all trains on the
Cottonwood division, Howard City,
Florence and Elinwood branches.
II. F. Tracy, chief dispatcher and
operator, in charge of all operators on
same division.
J. o. COnnell, general foreman of
bridges and buildings.
a. Harley, rOadmaster.
j. ii. Stettler, roadmaster.
II. b. Morse has charge of the yards
at this point.
THE SANTA FE EMPLOYS
at this place an average of about 375
men, and as soon as the spring opens
up there will be an additional hundred
or over, put on the yards at this place
and the construction gang, which
makes it's headquarters at this place.
A careful estimate of the men employed
in the several departments is as fol-
lows:
Conductors and brakemen.. ..... 40
Engineers and flremen. 80
arumon. Y
SecIlOn men ..............--- 10
Water service. Observation-Disclosures. 8
uel men. .
Construction gang. ..............5 so
The round house accommodates
daily an average of 40 to 40 engines,
which run on the main line and
branches, besides four switch engines,
which are located here, three day and
one night.
| BUSINESS DONE.
The amount of business done on the
Santa Fe road at this point is simply
enormous. Taking yesterday as an
average day, there were over $50 cars
of freight passed through, and one
hundred of these were cars of emf
grants bound for the west.
The passenger travel is also enor-
nous. Three passenger trains go west
and three go east every day, besides
almost daily extra trains of land look
ers. Each of the passenger trains car
ry an average of twelve coaches. In
addition to this there is the Howard
Branch train and the Southern Kan
sas, both of which arrive and depart
daily, each carrying two coaches. This
makes total of ten passenger trains
arriving in our city daily on the Santa
Fe, making daily average of eighty
coaches, each carrying from forty to
eighty passengers. The west bound
trains on the main line raise this aver
erage to ninety or one hundred passen-
gers per coach, making about 5000
people passing through Emporia daily
THE MATERIAL YARDS
at this point are completely jammed
with rails, ties and construction ma.
terial, there being over one hundred
miles of steel rails and many thousands
of ties. So great is the business in this
department that it requires one switch
engine all the time for this work
Trains run daily, carrying cOnstruc
ton material along the various
branches and extensions centering al
this point. The work of this depart
ment is daily increasing and the com
pany will put in at least ten new side
tracks to accommodate cars of ma
terial, etc.
In addition to this will be built thii
summer the grand double track to Ell
linor and the stock yards at this point
This means the addition of from three
: to four hundred men to the Santa Fe'
force quartered at this place. a reg
ular army.